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  TBM provides pure water, living water in Zimbabwe

  Polluted water is spreading cholera in Zimbabwe. TBM disaster relief workers spent two weeks there distributing 1,000 water filters.

  06/12/2009 - By admin

• Texas WMU hopes to grow organization ‘One by One’

  Texas WMU Interim Executive Director-Treasurer Nelda Seal announced a statewide WMU initiative called One by One during the organization’s June board of directors meeting.

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  Cleburne church puts prayer guides into use

  Field Street Baptist Church in Cleburne is using prayer guides to launch the congregation’s involvement in Texas Hope 2010.

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  Oliver begins work as ETBU president

  Samuel W. “Dub” Oliver began his tenure as the 12th president of East Texas Baptist University June 1.

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  Elder Statesman award goes to ‘behind the scenes’ laypeople

  W. Leroy and Ramona James Daniel of Wichita Falls received the BGCT's 2009 Texas Baptist Elder Statesman award.

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  BGCT launches partnership, aims to train 100,000 disciple-makers

  The Baptist General Convention of Texas has partnered with the International Evangelism Association in an effort to train 100,000 disciple-makers to follow up on spiritual decisions made during Texas Hope 2010.

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  Program enables retired ministers, widows to live with dignity

  More than 2,100 households received monthly assistance from the Southern Baptist Convention’s GuideStone Financial Resources program Mission: Dignity, said John Ambra, overseer of the program. Two-thirds of the recipients are widows of ministers.

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  Texas legislative session deemed ‘successful’

  In what BGCT Christian Life Commission staff members deemed a “successful” legislative session, lawmakers defeated efforts to expand gambling, approved a health insurance plan that would cover ministers of small churches, created liaisons between state agencies and faith-based groups and passed legislation against human trafficking.

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  Golfer honors father-in-law’s vision through gift to BUA

  The family of Hispanic golf celebrity Jose Jimenez, who died in 2007, has given Baptist University of the Americas a bequest of $100,000—the largest contribution from a Latino family in the school’s 62-year history, and the fourth-largest overall.

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  Records sketchy, but Baptist women clearly left their mark in colonial America

  Women outnumbered men in many Baptist churches in colonial America, but most of their names have been lost to history, church historian Pam Durso lamented.

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  Southern progressivism left its mark on WMU

  Southern-style Social Gospel may not be the first thing that springs to mind when most Baptists think of Woman’s Missionary Union, but Southern progressivism significantly influenced the organization in its formative years, church historian Carol Holcomb noted.

  06/12/2009 - By admin

• Former SBC leader takes on ’emergent church’

  Thirty years after ridding the Southern Baptist Convention of theological liberalism, the nation's largest non-Catholic religious organization now faces a different kind of liberalism from within, warns a Missouri layman and former member of the SBC Executive Committee.

  06/12/2009 - By Administrator